One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Early risers catch the world waking and see its true colors.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.